hack attempt on my server...What do you do about this?
L. Clayton Parker
l_parker at cacaphony.net
Sun Jul 18 03:13:27 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 22:13, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > Better make that command:
> >
> > mail -u root
> >
> > or it won't work.
>
> Not true. I said to login or su to the root user before running the
> mail command.
>
Yes, you are right that it will work if you login. But, if you simply
su and then run the command: mail without switches, it will check the
user account by default, not the root account.
--
L. Parker
chief cook, bottle washer and sometime sysadmin
cacaphony.net
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